[bluekachina]

I find this song to incorporate the essence of the urgency and the personal loss we all face.

Last Chance

When the stranger came to town
All the people watched with wonder
In their tattered clothes
Gathered ‘round and raised their eyes up from the dirt

And the stranger said to them
I have been upon the mountain
I have witnessed forces, like cannons
That could ram you to the ground

Stand up on your feet
'Cause your life is short as hell
You could be dead tomorrow
Today may be your

Last chance to believe in yourself
Your last chance to yell
Your last chance to be good to yourself
Your last chance to drink from life's well

In the crowd a voice was heard
Should we get them before they get you
Should we strike the first blow
He said no, no, no, you don't understand

The enemy is in your heart
Self-respect robbed by self-pity
Look across the country
All the people with their dreams dead in their hearts

Stand up your feet
'Cause your life is short as hell
You could be dead tomorrow
Today may be your

Last chance to believe in yourself
Your last chance to yell
Your last chance to be good to yourself
Your last chance to drink from life's well

So drink from the well
Oh yeah

It could be your
Last chance to believe in yourself
Your last chance to yell
Your last chance to be good to yourself
Your last chance to drink from life's well

Drink from the well
Oh yeah
Yeah

Drink from the well

[Cid_Yama]

Starrider - Foreigner (Click on full screen to truely enjoy.)

Who could have imagined 60+ almost 70 year old men playing rock, because it was our songs.

We had a good run.

Here's a concert I flew in to see in 1981 (it says 1982) but I'm sure it's the one I saw at Oberlin College in 1981. More people my age playing excellent music.

King Crimson - Elephant Talk, Thela Hun Gingeet

More from the album Sheltering Sky

When they were at their peak in terms of musicianship, they were their most unappreciated.

It was like everything music could be short of a full orchestra playing the Finale to Sibelius Symphony No. 2.

[Shar_Lamagne]

I know this is off topic but check this out.

Haydn Symphony 88

This guy is absolutely amazing.

[Sys1]

Ah! I hear about guitars, that's why i can't miss to post the best guitars players I've ever seen in concert :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAj8i7Le5lU

By the way, they don't need electricity to play, so they are Olduvai secure.
(I had to keep a bit on the thread )

[Asterisk]

Cid, just watched the Foreigner clip. Goes to show you, older guys don't mess around!! My dad is 69 and still kicks my butt in tennis, not to mention he can still jam as well as he ever did (well, if you can call singing folk songs on a acoustic guitar jamming that is)

Great orchestra too, btw! Been years since I've heard Sibelius 2. Great stuff!

[Cid_Yama]

Wipe Out-Sufaris

Nitro-Dick Dale

Since there will be no one out there to save it for, we might as well throw it out there to be appreciated one more time before the end.

How much great stuff has mankind produced over the centuries that needs to be appreciated one more time before we're gone?

A 10 year neo-renaissance would be a great way to go out.

[Cid_Yama]

I discovered something new.

The girl from the Christmas car commercials doing Mr Sandman. What a trip.

Her voice is haunting.

[Cid_Yama]

Got something for you BlinkBlink. I did not know the history of this album until just now.

When I first heard it, my first thought was that they had to have just been massively tripping on acid when they created this.

I never knew there was story, let alone a documentary, behind it.

Music from the Body by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin.

It's got to be the rarest. Music from the album

Give birth to a smile

Body Transport

[Cid_Yama]

Blink Blink,

The music lives with you. When I was a child it was 40's swing. I still love it. It is comforting. The old time rough style from the 30's and the Boswell Sisters from the 20's and early 30's remind me of my Grandparents. My Grandmother used to sing the Boswell Sisters all the time.

People always talk about a photographic memory. I have a phonographic memory. If i've heard it a couple times it's recorded in my brain cells complete every note.

I swear I have a little hormunculus disc jockey in my brain. I've caught it playing appropriate music for whatever situation I was in.

Useful also for all the long flights around the world I had to make with my job.

We didn't have mp3. But in my brain I had the equivalent.

My late teens was the early 60's. those songs still mean a lot to me. I was enamored with Joni Mitchell and all the music that came with the counter culture in the mid to late 60's.

My interest in what was coming out extended through probably about 1981.

Music since about the late 70's has been oriented towards early relationships, much like it was in the early 60's.

Music does not belong to any one generation. But the topic can limit interest.

I find the music from the mid 60's and into the mid-70's to be the most interesting as it took on philosophical and spiritual issues.

I truely believe that was mankind's high point and we have devolved since then, as the result of political/corporate influence.

Funding for post-secondary education, heck for all education since then, has been cut.

Emphasis has since been on a compliant and malable workforce, with education only in those areas that involve business needs.

Recent generations, through no fault of their own, have been robbed of a rich heritage.